The old curiosity shop - Charles Dickens - Books - - 9798649355759 - May 28, 2020
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The Old Curiosity Shop

The events of the book seem to take place around 1825. In Chapter 29, Miss Monflathers refers to the death of Lord Byron, who died on 19 April 1824. When the inquest rules (incorrectly) that Quilp committed suicide, his corpse is ordered to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart, a practice banned in 1823.[3] Nell's grandfather, after his breakdown, fears that he shall be sent to a madhouse, and there chained to a wall and whipped; these practices went out of use after about 1830.[citation needed] In Chapter 13, the lawyer Mr. Brass is described as "one of Her Majesty's attornies" [sic], putting him in the reign of Queen Victoria, which began in 1837, but given all the other evidence, and the fact that Kit, at his trial, is charged with acting "against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King" (referring to George IV), this must be a slip of the pen.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 28, 2020
ISBN13 9798649355759
Pages 810
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 41 mm   ·   1.06 kg
Language English  

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